The Plot To Bomb The Shul in Chicago

So by now everyone knows about the attempt to bomb a synagogue or two in Chicago. I have no idea why someone in Yemen or Saudi Arabia would choose Chicago as the target, rather than New York or Israel, but they did. I still remember when they caught one of the largest Hamas cells in America operating out of a bakery in Chicago, so Chicago is not foreign to extremists..

Anyways, the whole story sounded strange, and I am sure there is more we don't know than that which we do know. So, I asked my father, a very wise man who still lives in Chicago, what he thought about it.

Here are his thoughts, with his permission for reprinting.

Dr. G:
The reports in the media are so sketchy and the details vary from day to day that it is at best unclear what was sent and to whom. Several media have interviewed shul goers and p.r. people from different organizations. They all seem almost proud that their organization might be a target, i.e., they have achieved such prominence they are a target. More like peacocks! If this was a credible threat, then only human intelligence could have unmasked the plot. Regardless if the packages were detonable, lethal enough to have harmed anyone in the air or on the ground, or if they were just trial packages sent to see how security forces would react or even detect them, one thing is clear. There are moles or traitors among the terrorists willing to leak information for some kind of price. That's the key here, human intelligence; not drones, not spy in space satellites, not eavesdropping on cell calls, but on the ground, good old fashion spy stuff.


The media reports the targets were Jews and Jewish institutions, not random airliners or military bases or office buildings. This war against the Jews is exacerbated by Jimmy Carter's pandering to terrorists, by Obama's mollycoddler politics, by the media reports of Peter Beinart and Thomas Friedman and Helen Thomas, by UNESCO's repeatedly anti-Israel position papers and votes, and moves to boycott and disinvest from Israel by universities and labor unions. All these keep the focus on Israel and the Jews for now, so the next natural step is to target violent acts against any and all Jews anywhere in the world. The best thing about the editorial page of a newspaper is that nobody reads it.


This will pass in a short time, however. Obama will be so busy trying to save his presidency he won't have time for Middle East politics. The american people are sympathetic to Jews and Israel and this will only enhance our credibility with them. As the terrorists become more frustrated, they will target more soft targets in Europe and Scandinavia and will ignite the smoldering backlash already underway there.

And on another, more humorous, note on the same topic, the Yated expressed in its headline report about the great chasdei shamayim in their catching the bombs that were destined to explode in shuls in Chicago.

I wonder if they would have said the same thing if they knew t the time that the shul it was addressed to, Congregation Ohr Chadash, is a gay-lesbian shul..

Just Wondering..